I recently bought Wilma Paterson and Alasdair Gray’s The Songs of Scotland in a secondhand bookshop in Cockermouth, Cumbria.

Stuffed in the back were 8 photocopied pages of handwritten tunes with the last part of an introductary essay (page 8 of the book) signed David Mounsey.

The essay seems to be about Cumbrian dances and their tunes:

“Country dancing was taken fairly serious, sons and daughters of farmers were sent for dancing instruction held at assembly rooms in Ulverston, Ambleside, Keswick and elsewhere”

Some of the tunes include:

Lord Brougham’s Hornpipe
Hunsup Through the Wood
Cumberland Reel
Bonny Cumberland
John Peel
Stybarrow Crag Hornpipe

Can anyone help identify the original publication, please?

All the best
Harry